Orientalism
A Presentation on…
Presented By :
Jani Amita C.
[M.A. Sem – III ]
Key Concept
What is Orientalism?
Game of Power
Cross-culture Discourse
Fix Mindset
Material Evidence
The Europeans Divides World into Two Parts
Power Relationship
West East
Occident Orient
Us Other
Familiar Stranger
Civilized Uncivilized
Superior Compare to Orient
Active Passive
Subject Object
Observers Observed
Colonized Colonizer
White Black
Metropolitan Colonial Societies
Conclusion
The best summary of the Orientalist mindset
would probably be : “East is east and West is
west, and never the twain shall meet..”
- Rudyard Kipling
Thanks to the Department of
English
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